[vacets-gen] [More Vietnam Vets Speak up against Kerry]

[dinh mang]

It's amazing that we (the American voters) keep
talking about Kerry's record during the Vietnam war,
about Bush's record during the Vietnam war.  It's
unfortunate that we don't talk enough about the
problems that matter to us, right now, right here.  

Mang

  


--- Hai Tran <hai_v_tran at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> In 1970, Kerry met with the Vietnamese at the Paris
> Peace Talks and the POWs say he came back and pushed
> the Vietnamese plan for U.S. withdrawal from
> Vietnam."
> 
> Mary Jane McManus said, "He was supporting their
> plan; that to me is aid and comfort to the enemy.
> That is treason."
> 
>
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>  
> ELECTION 2004 More Vietnam Vets Speak up against
> Kerry
> 
> By Melissa Charbonneau
> White House Correspondent
> 
> September 9, 2004
> 
> 
> 
> 
> CBN.com – WASHINGTON -- More Vietnam veterans are
> coming forward to speak out against Sen. John Kerry.
> In a new documentary, former prisoners of war are
> speaking out against Kerry's anti-war record after
> Vietnam. 
> Kerry has been bashing President Bush over the war
> in Iraq over Bush's so-called "wrong choices" but
> Kerry himself is under assault again, in the
> just-released documentary "Stolen Honor."
> 
> Dozens of former prisoners of war are coming forward
> to condemn Kerry's anti-war activities. They charge
> that Kerry smeared the innocent, aided the enemy,
> and jeopardized the lives of Americans held captive
> in Vietnam prison camps."
> 
> In the film, decorated Vietnam war heroes cite
> Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony accusing the U.S.
> military of war atrocities, charges highlighted in
> recent Swift Boat ads.
> 
> Mary Jane McManus, her husband a POW for nearly six
> years, says Kerry's speech enraged her. She said she
> was, "Furious!! I cannot even control myself today."
> 
> 
> Kevin McManus learned after his release that Kerry
> had accused him and other Americans of doing what he
> suffered torture to avoid saying. He said, "They
> went after you a good solid three-week period,
> trying to get you to sign anything -- their
> preference was, that you signed something saying you
> committed war crimes."
> 
> What bothers McManus most is that Kerry's charges
> continue to torture the families of POWs who never
> came home.
> 
> He said, "How would you feel if you thought your
> father was guilty of war crimes, or your husband or
> your child, even if you didn't think they were
> guilty? But you had a nagging doubt they were
> guilty, after 30 or 40 years?"
> 
> In 1970, Kerry met with the Vietnamese at the Paris
> Peace Talks and the POWs say he came back and pushed
> the Vietnamese plan for U.S. withdrawal from
> Vietnam."
> 
> Mary Jane McManus said, "He was supporting their
> plan; that to me is aid and comfort to the enemy.
> That is treason."
> 
> At the time, POW wives feared if Kerry was
> successful in getting a U.S. withdrawal, their
> husbands would die in prison.
> 
> Mary Jane McManus said, "If we had set a date,
> pulled out our troops, the Vietnamese were telling
> the POW's all along, 'if they pull out, then we try
> you for war crimes'!
> 
> Former POW Jim Warner said, "If they withdraw
> unilaterally, our value goes to zero. And what do
> you think Communists do to people who have no
> value?"
> 
> Warner says POWs like him were bargaining chips for
> the Communists. Kerry's statements were used by
> Warner's captors to threaten him during
> interrogations.
> 
> Warner remarked, "The interrogator started yelling
> at me, pointing at Kerry's testimony, saying, 'See,
> here is an officer in your own Navy who says you are
> a criminal and you deserve punishment.' And I
> thought maybe the executions would start right now.
> So this really gave me some anxiety for quite some
> time." 
> 
> Warner added, "I think it showed incredibly bad
> judgment to have made these statements, knowing that
> it was going to put us at risk. Or it showed callous
> indifference to our fate."
> 
> Some POW's accuse Kerry of being a dupe in his
> anti-war activities; others say he ingratiated
> himself with Senate liberals for future campaigns.
> 
> Kevin McManus said, " He doesn't care what he's done
> to the vast majority of men who served in Vietnam,
> and in particular the dead, their families. He has
> absolutely no feeling for them, only if they help
> him in gaining this office."
> 
> The Kerry campaign did not respond to CBN News'
> request for a response to the latest veterans'
> attack on the senator.
> 
> The POW's insist that they have no political
> motivations. They say they are a mix of all
> political persuasions. And they say that with
> continual terrorist threats like the recent Russian
> school attack, they will keep raising questions
> about Kerry's fitness to be Commander-in-Chief.
> 
> Warner said, "That's what we're facing, and I don't
> believe we can face an enemy this evil, being led by
> somebody whose judgment is so seriously flawed."
> 
> Please visit the "Stolen Honor" Web site.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
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> free.
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